Q 01/05

Which Spanish painter collected seven works by Renoir?

A) Salvador Dalí

B) Joan Miró

C) Pablo Picasso

D) Juan Gris

Answer · why

C) Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. Renoir's late work inspired a younger generation of painters, and the seven Renoirs that Picasso collected went to the Paris museum dev...

Q 02/05

In which French city was Renoir born in 1841?

A) Rouen

B) Lyon

C) Limoges

D) Marseille

Answer · why

C) Limoges

Limoges. Renoir left it as a small child when his father, a tailor, moved the family to Paris, the city where he grew up and learned to paint.

Q 03/05

In which French film does a reclusive neighbour repaint Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party year after year?

A) La Vie en Rose

B) Amélie

C) The Intouchables

D) Delicatessen

Answer · why

B) Amélie

Amélie. Her brittle-boned neighbour Dufayel has copied the painting for twenty years without ever capturing the girl drinking from a glass, and Amélie...

Q 04/05

Which French composer taught the young Renoir music before painting won out?

A) Georges Bizet

B) Hector Berlioz

C) Charles Gounod

D) Jacques Offenbach

Answer · why

C) Charles Gounod

Charles Gounod thought the boy gifted, but at 13 Renoir was apprenticed to paint porcelain, a trade he lost within a few years when printing machines ...

Q 05/05

Under which teacher did Renoir study in 1862, meeting Monet, Sisley and Bazille?

A) Charles Gleyre

B) Thomas Couture

C) Jean-Léon Gérôme

D) Gustave Courbet

Answer · why

A) Charles Gleyre

Gleyre's Paris studio was the incubator of the Impressionist circle.